ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,460, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).
"Upper support assembly" was invented by Kouichi Kobayashi (Aichi, Japan), Katsuzou Okada (Aichi, Japan), Kazuki Hotta (Aichi, Japan) and Takayuki Goto (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An upper support assembly 10 includes an upper support 12 that attaches a shock absorber 84 to a vehicle body 90. The upper support 12 has a cylindrical holder 58 for mounting a bound stopper 94, and the cylindrical holder 85 protrudes downward from a portion that is overlapped with and fixed to the vehicle body 90. The cylindrical holder 58 has a tapered cylindr...